Sherlock Holmes and the Ghost Ship Mystery...a true story that inspired Conan Doyle to write a fiction tale accepted as fact
Sherlock Holmes and the Ghost Ship Mystery. How a true story inspired Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - the creator of the fictional character Sherlock Holmes - to write a fictional tale about the Mary Celeste, accepted as fact! This is a fascinating story by author Don Hale about how a ghost ship inspired Sir Arthur Conan Doyle to investigate one of the world's most fascinating mysteries. https://donhaleblog.blogspot.com When the brigantine Mary Celeste was first found abandoned and drifting helplessly in the Azores, just off the coast of Portugal in December 1872, speculative news of the crew being abducted or murdered by aliens, huge sea monsters, or pirates, no doubt inspired an inquisitive young Scottish schoolboy, Arthur Conan Doyle, to eventually write his own fictional tale. Then aged just 13, and setting his mind to a medical career, it would be another 12-years before he finally put pen to paper whilst working as a surgeon on a whaling ship bound for an Arctic adventure. H